Post #322298 by Tiki-Kate on Tue, Jul 31, 2007 12:01 PM

On 2007-01-04 21:54, Otto wrote:
Hey all you crazy carvers!

Do you want to recreate this event at Tiki Oasis live?

Or would you be interested in exhibiting the top 5 or ten Tikis resulting from the Chop Chop?

Either way it would give publicity/notoriety to your event.

Let me know if you are interested and we can brainstorm ways to make it happen Aug 17, 18 at the Hanalei

This was the original suggestion for the Big Chop. I don't know if anyone actually wanted any publicity or notoriety for our little monthly gathering, but I thought it sounded like a nice idea. A little change of scenery.

Remember everyone, this is supposed to be fun.

Neither Otto nor the Hanalei are providing any support for this event. They were just cool enough to give us some space and some basic guidelines so we could do the same thing we do every month.

I see this as any other monthly Chop. (Granted, I don't normally carve in go-go boots.) I'm just bringing my usual set up and maybe a pop-up of my own since we'll be a little more spread out than we normally are.

As always, I'll bring the big ice chest with plenty of soda and water for everyone who's carving. I'll probably bring a double batch of the chocolate chocolate chocolate cookies. (I'm hoping that there will be Spam masubi also. :D)

This is what we do every single month.

Maybe the hard feelings are coming from the fact that the "special guests" are only going to be there because of the publicity and notoriety.

Then again, these people have lives. They can't necessarily drive down to SD or Oceanside once a month to hang with the locals.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be carving if it weren't for Bosko. And Ray has always been very kind to me. It's going to be nice to be able to hang with some new people, but at the core of this event it's just the usual crowd.

There will come a day when a lot of us won't be able to afford an original piece of art by Clysdalle or Mieko or Tikidav or Buzzy. Don't miss out on this opportunity to spend time with these incredible people. It really is something very special.